Pierre Syklos
Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University and a Centre for International Governance Innovation Senior Fellow and C.D. Howe Institute Research Fellow. He has held seven visiting researcher positions at central banks in European and Asian countries, including Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary and Japan. Pierre has also held more than 20 visiting fellowships at leading academic institutions, such as the International School of Economic Research in Siena, Italy, Oxford University in the United Kingdom, Princeton and Stanford Universities in the United States.
He has a particular interest in the governance models of central banks and the macroeconomic and financial challenges that arise in an interdependent world. To that end, he has compared and contrasted how European models of integration differ from those in Asia. His work in applied time series analysis and monetary policy focuses on inflation and financial markets.
Pierre teaches macroeconomics at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is a former chair of the Bundesbank Foundation of International Monetary Economics at FreieUniversität in Berlin, Germany. He was Director of the Viessmann European Research Centre from 2005 to 2014. Pierre is the former managing editor of the North American Journal of Economics and Finance and he has published widely in several well-known peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of International Economics.
Pierre earned his Ph.D. in economics from Carleton University and his M.A. in economics from the University of Western Ontario. He joined CIGI as a senior fellow in 2009 and is fluent in English, French and Hungarian.